New York City, 1919...The luxurious Waldorf Astoria hotel...A wealthy businessman plunges to his death from an eighth-floor balcony...His secret lover, a beautiful young flapper named Lulu Silver, is seemingly distraught...But the man's widow claims that Lulu is guilty of murder...She asks that Sherlock Holmes take on the case...But Holmes and Watson have only a few days left in NYC...And Detective Murphy of the NYPD insists that it was suicide...This is the 30th story in the Sherlock Holmes pastiche series by Ben Stevens.